At least we’re tied for 49th; usually we stand alone in 49th place. _______________________
Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu <mailto:an...@cs.unm.edu> 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel <http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Richard Lowenberg <r...@1st-mile.org> > Subject: [1st-mile-nm] Akamai Report > Date: March 25, 2016 at 1:01:19 PM MDT > To: 1st-mile Nm <1st-mile...@mailman.dcn.org> > Reply-To: r...@1st-mile.org > > The latest quarterly Report on the Global State of the Internet was recently > published. > > https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q4-state-of-the-internet-report.pdf > > This sentence is from that report: > > Despite seeing 22% quarterly growth in its (U.S.) 10 Mbps broadband > adoption rate, Idaho remained in last place across the country with > a 34% adoption rate. Iowa, New Mexico, and Arkansas shared the > next-lowest 10 Mbps broadband adoption rate in the country at 36%. > > Of interest, Utah easily ranks among the ten top states in bandwidth and > adoption. > > > (As I've stated repeatedly since 2008, though not an easy task, NM's low > national ranking does not have to be the case, as there are low-cost > strategic actions that could move us up to within top 20 ranking within a > very few years, while also 'raising our many other boats': education, > healthcare, jobs, energy, etc. The digital divide is firmly rooted among > leadership as much as among the rural, poor, elderly and undereducated.) > > RL > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Richard Lowenberg, Executive Director > 1st-Mile Institute 505-603-5200 > Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504, > r...@1st-mile.org www.1st-mile.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > 1st-mile-nm mailing list > 1st-mile...@mailman.dcn.org > http://www2.dcn.org/mailman/listinfo/1st-mile-nm
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